Quotes About Challenge

They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary . Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!

If you can't pray it away, it's not a real problem.

That was how the world worked, wasn't it? You set your sights on something, and life came along with a sucker punch.

But that's the risk, isn't it? Being the best gives you nowhere to go but down. It also makes you a target, for if someone else wants to be the best, they have to beat you, don't they?

No, life didn't always go how you thought it might. Sometimes it didn't make any sense at all. You've just got to find a way to live there anyway.

Haven musta been a comfortable place, a place where men weren't fighting every day just to survive. Maybe too much comfort was the problem.

Hmm," Mistress Coyle hmms.

I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of his daughters.

hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

soft man who made himself a hard man by drinking whisky in the classroom

Being the best gives you nowhere to go but down. It also makes you a target, for if someone else wants to be the best, they have to beat you, don't they?

When luck ain't with you, it's against you.

There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

And there's yer lesson. There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

_Of course you are afraid_, the monster said, pushing him slowly forward. _And yet you will still do it._

Why die before you die? Your father and I have done something daring for probably the first time since we got married.

Usually when a man calls a woman a bitch," a voice calls over from a cart pulling up near us at the edge of camp, "it's because she's doing something right.

But hell you make for yourself is still hell, maybe

So go. Run with it. Make trouble.

Ideals, my girl," she says. "Always easier to believe in than live." "But if you don't at least try to live them," Bradley says, "then there's no point in living at all.

We'd all met in the office and told the vice principal—who, like all vice principals, is genetically Nazi—what we'd seen. He

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully.

E lui capì che era giunto il momento. Capì che davvero non c'era ritorno. Che sarebbe accaduto, qualunque cosa potesse desiderare, qualunque cosa potesse provare. E sapeva anche che l'avrebbe superato. Sarebbe stato terribile. Sarebbe stato ben più che terribile. Ma sarebbe sopravvissuto.